Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-12-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

On the European bOurses, during the
week ended November -, the feeling was
stronger, Americans being quoted higher.
THE Supreme Court of Wisconsin has re-
versed the decision OF the lower courts in
cases brought against insurance companies
for non-payment Of licenses.
BARNuM's menagerie and circus was
burned at Bridgeport, Conn.,, on the night
Of the Goth. Thirty elephants and hon
escaped and fed to the country, creating
much alarm. Many animals persisted with
circus paraphernalia, the loss being esti-
mated at 100000, with 100000 insurance.
THE Netherlands steamer Scholten was
sunk off the mouth OF the Thames on the
night of the 10Th by collision with the
coal laden steamer Rosa Mary. OF the
crew and passengers, numbering 230 on
board the Scholten only 80 were known to
have been saved. Three Of the life boats
proved unseaworthy when launched. The
disaster occurred in fog, the Rosa Mary
being badly damaged. But few lives would
have been saved had not the steamer Edre
been near. The latter vessel threw off
her deck. load of lumber, the survivors
clinging to the boards until rescued by the
boats.
The Goodlander mills and adjacent prop
erty at Fort Scott, Kan, were destroyed
by fire recently, involving loss of about
$500, 900.
FOREST fires continued on the Goth, de-
vastating the southern and western por-
tions of kentucky.
A WHITE man was burned to death in the
destruction of Brack Bros business block
in Little Rock, Ark, the other day. The fire
did $40, GOO damage.
The village Of Saloni, in Warren County,
Iowa, was almost totally destroyed by fire
the other day, fourteen buildings with
their contents being burned. The losses
will aggregate nearly S75,OOO0, with only a
small insurance.
The No. Hecla shaft at Calumet, Mich,
was reported on fire on the Goth. The mine
was Immediately closed.
FOREST fires were reported exceedingly
troublesome in Crittenden County, Ark, and
also in Mississippi on the 2lst. The smoke
was so dense that steamers found conSid.
cradle difficulty in navigating the rivers.
A THIN ice was reported on the ponds at
Tampa, Fla, on the 21st, which. it was
thought, would put an end to yellow fever.
THERE was a collision on the Caro- Vim
cennes q Chicago railway near Vienna,
ILL.,, on the Goth. The two engineers and u
eral others wounded. Much damage was
aisodo
The trouble in the Cherokee Nation was
compromised on the 2lst and the legislative
deadlock was thought to have ended.
IT is reported that the Irish executive
has decided to suppress the Kerry branches
of the National League.
THE Liverpool steamship Douro has been
wrecked off Cape Finisterre and thirteen
persons have been drowned.
JACOB SCHwAB, a noted importer OF laces
of New York City, was killed the other
day by falling down the elevator shaft of
| his warehouse.
The citizens of Thibodeaux, La, have
| formed a vigilance committee of white and
| colored men to guard the town against
strikers who were threatening trouble.
Mrs. GRAVES, an aged lady Of Poplar
Grove, Ark, was burned to death while
alone IN her house recently.
The thermometer was as low as &c de-
grees in Augusta, Ga, on the 2lst, and
there was heavy frost throughout
Georgia and the Carolinas.
MRS. FAY, the medium, has sued the pub
fishers of tho Boston Record for $50 600
damages for libel, in publishing what pur-
ported to be an expose Of Mrs. Fay's meth
DDS.
| w. d. WEIGH, Chicago travelling man,
was frozen to death In a recent snow storm
near W aukegan, ILL.,, while duck hunting.
| THE persons arrested at Berlin recently
for throwing petitions into the Cars car
riage were Russians named Kapitmiki and
Romberg. They left Russia to escape
military service and petitioned to be per-
mitted to return without punishment
THE three-year- old child of D. 7. Ponder, OF
jackson, La, fell feet first into bored
well forty-three feet deep the other day,
but was fshed out with po.hooks uuhurt